The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-06-28

met Lot Moriarity, the dandy Cop, Sat.
urday night last, and his face showed too
plainly that things had gone wrong with
him, Says l, Lot, what's up with you, my
boy, you look glum tonight" He said, "you
bet do; | had one of the incest little traps
laid to catch Jack Dowsett and his crowd up
there on richards street, and to think that
got beat at my own game, makes me mad;
why, me and the Grand Duke had studied
the thing out, and there was no such word as
fail IN it, when darn my skin, if they didn't
move the previous question on me and burst
the whole thing, just as had my horse ready
to start OFF to let the Grand Duke know that
everything was all serene, and that | would
soon have the whole lot of 'em breaking
stones on the roads, l asked Lot what was
the cause of this ill-feeling on his part to-
wards the boys? He said, ''the HG0leS had
commenced to put On airs with the Grand
Duke-wouldn't let him help run some of the
jubilee shows, and gave him the cold shoulder
generally, which made US mad, and l had
made up my mind to scoop some of them in,
and teach them a lesson they would not for
get. Just think what work had III fixing
up those two boys of niue, making them
look as If they had been run over by lawn
mower, and besides, they had such nice little
stories made up, the one tallying perfectly
with the other-and then to get euchred-oh,
it's too bad, and the Grand Duke is wild over
1t; says | was careles; ought 10 have had
Eoolscap there to help me through and all
that, after all the dirty work | done for INN
IL the last Legislature, II the shape of put-up
Jobs, and yhooping up salaries-why, feel
ike selling out to the 'reyolutlouiSts' cheap"
advised Lot to keep his shirt or. and not to
get excited, and perhaps he might get TO be
Governor of Molokini Ehis frightened
him up a little, but says he, what l want
IS to hang my coat and hat on the Attorney
Generals peg, and l hope to live to see
Foolscap scooping up precarious livelihood
by shystering IN the police court. Foolscap
thinks lie is a big chap now because he's
Commandment Chief of the Army, u Governor
and host OF other fat jobs, while l have
only one billet, with the paltry opium certif-
cate biz thrown ln-where is my chance TO
make fortune or have a fat bank account
like NOsbig and son !: . | asked Lot if the
him = Well, be said, e" it looked that way,
bat DON'T you see my witnesses were police
mer, end they are like George Washington.
Lever tell II and relied on tie beik
10 t;.Ee this view of the case, bat az didn't:
he believed those baole witnesses aid that
hack driver, and the story of tie cnap t,ith
the lunc-ialled coat on and dismissed The
whole business. Now those 70 ,sters ..re
cro"luS HLG threatening 10 bring sat Tor
malicious prosecution, aud tHe Lord oaiy
knows now where it will end, and i; will
make ny eXchequer look cleaner titan a jay
birds hui. tried my level best to quiet
Lot down, bat did not succeed until we reach
ed "Coouers shady lane" when the "presvious
question was soon moved and the dandy
cop seemed to have in "A measure regain ed
his equilibrium, when l bid him good
night without being hauled in"
F1ANErrR